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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes in with the nurse?
(a) Another nurse.
(b) A priest.
(c) A man who knows Morse Code.
(d) A doctor.

2. What would be the advantage of people seeing Joe?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They would believe in God and miracles.
(c) It would be educational.
(d) They would know the advances of modern medicines.

3. What does Joe ask of God?
(a) To help him live.
(b) To help him die.
(c) Nothing.
(d) To help the nurse understand Joe is communicating.

4. How does Joe think he can count sunrises?
(a) When the doctor comes in and takes his pulse.
(b) When they first feed him after being without.
(c) Because of the warming on his skin.
(d) When a nurse first comes after a long time without.

5. What does Joe decide he needs to offer?
(a) Nothing.
(b) An idea of how it is to suffer wounds they way he has.
(c) Permission for them to kill him.
(d) A means of paying for his own upkeep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joe feel after the man who he has been talking to leaves?

2. What does Joe think about his mother reading?

3. What does Joe need most?

4. How does he name the days of the week and months?

5. What does Joe think about life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process of the new nurse attempting to communicate with Joe.

2. Why can't Bonham stand the train and what does he do when he sees Christ?

3. What does Joe think about to try and use his mind?

4. What does Joe remember about New Year's Eve in Shale City and Los Angeles?

5. What does the day nurse do with Joe?

6. What is the response to Joe's offer and Joe's reaction?

7. What obstacle does Joe see in their granting his request and what is his solution?

8. What does a doctor do when Joe keeps tapping and what does Joe think is the reason why?

9. What does Joe imagine as he waits for the nurse to return and do you think he is overreacting?

10. What does Bonham realize he wants?

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